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January 2024

  • A character with a beared, at a desk with a lamp in a government office, looks a bit scared in the game Mexico, 1921: A Deep Slumber

    A new kind of history lesson: Mexico, 1921: A Deep Slumber makes you a journalist during a revolution

    Focusing on power and politics, this Mácula Interactive docu-game draws on muralists, an assassination and newspaper reporting in painstakingly historically accurate detail

November 2023

  • Men reading El Machete, 1927, Tina Modotti.

    The big picture
    The big picture: campesinos unite in Tina Modotti’s Mexico

    The contemporary of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo uses her art to highlight peasant farmers fighting for agrarian reform in this 1927 picture

July 2023

  • His ’n’ hers … King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

    Pass notes
    Separate bedrooms: the secret to a happy life – and now with royal approval

    Not having to put up with Charles’s snoring or Camilla nicking the duvet has apparently done wonders for the regal relationship. Could it work for the rest of us?

June 2023

  • Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; photo: Saul Steed

    Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution exhibition – a glimpse of Kahlo’s true genius

    This beautiful show is packed with works by Kahlo, Rivera and their Mexican contemporaries – but it is missing the darker side of her life story

February 2023

  • A 1938 self-portrait by Kahlo

    Frida Kahlo’s husband may have helped her die, reveals Diego Rivera’s grandson

    The revered Mexican artist’s suffering was so great, she ‘probably’ asked her soulmate to assist in ending her life, documentary is told

February 2022

  • Diego Rivera
Francisco de la Mora and José Luis Pescador

    Graphic novel of the month
    Diego Rivera by Francisco de la Mora and José Luis Pescador review – rumbustious hymn to a radical artist

    The eventful life of Frida Kahlo’s revolutionary husband makes for a rich, energetic graphic biography

June 2021

  • Emily Rapp Black photographed at home in California this month.

    Frida Kahlo and me: how the artist shaped my life as an amputee

    In her new memoir, Emily Rapp Black explains how the work and experiences of the Mexican artist helped her develop a better relationship with her body

June 2018

  • Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, Frida Kahlo, 1943 (c) The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th Century Mexican Art and The Vergel Foundation

    Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up review – forget the paintings, here's her false leg

  • Frida Kahlo exhibition<br>Undated handout photo issued by The Victoria &amp; Albert Museum (V&amp;A) of Frida Kahlo in blue satin blouse, 1939, one of the exhibits in the London attraction's show on the Mexican artist. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday March 8, 2018. The ill feature more than 200 objects, including outfits, letters, jewellery, cosmetics, medical corsets and medicines, which husband Diego Rivera locked away in her home, the Blue House, following Kahlo's death at the age of 47 in 1954. Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, runs at the V&amp;A from June 16 to November 4. See PA story ARTS Kahlo. Photo credit should read: Nickolas Muray /V&amp;A/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Frida Kahlo and the birth of Fridolatry

May 2018

  • In a bid to keep the sale as accessible as possible, hundreds of items, including costume jewellery and furniture, are being placed in an online auction where bidding starts as low as $100.

    'An exceptional sale': dazzling Rockefeller collection could fetch $1bn

    Sprawling private collection of 1,600 of David Rockefeller’s items will go on auction at Christie’s – and could break records

March 2018

  • The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo on a rooftop in Greenwich Village in March 1939.

    The big picture
    The big picture: Frida Kahlo in New York, 1939

  • Frida Kahlo:  Making Herself Up opens at the V&A in London in June

    Frida Kahlo's intimate belongings go on display at the V&A

May 2017

  • Georgia O’Keeffe photographed by Alfred Stieglitz

    'My body shall be all yours': the startling sex letters of Joyce, Kahlo and O'Keeffe

    An eye-wateringly explicit new stage show celebrates erotic correspondence sent by famous figures through the ages

December 2016

  • Pablo Picasso
Running Minotaur (Minotaure courant), 1928
Oil on canvas
64 × 51 1/8 in. (162.5 × 130 cm)
Musée Picasso Paris

    Picasso and Rivera review – a lifelong conversation between artistic frenemies

    Lacma’s winter show, Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time, parallels the European modern master with Mexico’s most revered muralist

July 2016

  • Frida Kahlo in 1933

    Frida Kahlo: why we can't look away from the world's first selfie superstar

  • A mural outside the future Mexican Museum, set to open in 2019. The building will be home to the largest Mexican and Latino art collection in the country.

    San Francisco museum to have largest US collection of Mexican and Latino art

March 2016

  • Frida Kahlo

    Frida Kahlo's brush with ballet: Tamara Rojo dances the artist's life

    The great Mexican painter is the subject of one of three new works choreographed by women for She Said at Sadler’s Wells. Its creators explain their impressionistic approach to the artist’s pain and passion

December 2015

  • Reconstruction of Mondrian’s Paris studio.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best art books of 2015

    From the tidy world of Piet Mondrian to sculptors Antony Gormley and Isamu Noguchi – the year’s best art titles

November 2015

  • Frida sonriendo con la cantante costarrecence Chavela Vargas, circa 1945.

    Guardian Mexico City week
    Frida Kahlo, hija de la Ciudad de México – una vida en fotografías

  • Frida Kahlo laughing

    Guardian Mexico City week
    Frida Kahlo and her Casa Azul home – a lifetime in pictures

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